VAR Varna

How deep the VAR board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from VAR. This reads the same 45 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 39of the 45 destinations are flown by one airline
• 36destinations run less than once a day
• 1destination has four or more departures a day
• 44.4%of the destinations name Wizz Air, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at VAR

21 airlines appear on the VAR board and they do not hold it evenly. Wizz Air is on 20 of the 45 destinations, 44.4 per cent of them, and on 16 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 15.3 of the 32.3 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Eurowings on 4 destinations. 11 of the 21 airlines at VAR appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at VAR: one airline on 44.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 55.6 per cent spread across 20 airlines. A cancellation inside the Wizz Air network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 25 destinations Wizz Air does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the VAR board is daily

Of the 45 destinations, 9 are flown at least once a day and 36 are not, 4 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the VAR board is flown 3 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: VAR to Sharm el Sheikh (SSH) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 11.4 of the 32.3 departures a day, 35.3 per cent of the whole board. With 80 per cent of the 45 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Lille/Lesquin LIL	France	Volotea	1	2,036	plan this
Nantes NTE	France	Volotea	1	2,333	plan this
Paris ORY	France	Transavia France	1	2,049	plan this
Sharm el Sheikh SSH	Egypt	Bulgaria Air	1	1,796	plan this
Brussels BRU	Belgium	TUI Airlines Belgium	2	1,951	plan this
Enfidha NBE	Tunisia	Bulgaria Air	2	1,683	plan this
Gdańsk GDN	Poland	Wizz Air	2	1,413	plan this
Hahn HHN	Germany	Wizz Air	2	1,732	plan this
Nuremberg NUE	Germany	Wizz Air	2	1,458	plan this
Ostrava OSR	Czechia	SmartWings	2	1,033	plan this

The ten destinations out of VAR where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 24 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from VAR

The desk holds the return direction for 31 of the 45 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On two of them the return into VAR runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Dresden (DRS) at 0.57 out a day against 0.29 back and Antalya (AYT) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV) files 2.3 a day back into VAR against 1.4 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at VAR

VAR keeps Europe/Sofia time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at VAR, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at VAR and still make a departure the same day.

The night at VAR

10 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from VAR that lands inside it leaves around 22:41, on a modelled block of 1h 49m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from VAR that lands inside it leaves around 20:37, on a modelled block of 2h 23m. Into Hamburg (HAM) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from VAR that lands inside it leaves around 21:16, on a modelled block of 2h 44m. Those three departure times out of VAR are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where VAR turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Bulgaria country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 3 airport pair pages that start or end at VAR, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Varna to Bratislava (BTS), Varna to Hanover (HAJ) and Varna to Eindhoven (EIN).

Six courier postings name VAR as the airport a courier here flies from: Varna, Burgas and Ruse.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with VAR already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 45 destinations above.